You get recruited by other VPs to be VP. You skip all the normal interviews that would discover your incompetence. You get hired with a plan of “we will figure out where he/she best fit”.<p>You take over a team or several teams that add up to a hundred or more people in total.<p>You probably don’t provide value and just added a layer of management and made vertical communication harder and more broken. You’re leeching off the company.<p>This brokenness is perceived as a leadership gap and more middle managers/VPs are brought in and the problem is exacerbated and the cycle continues.<p>Hopefully, someone who actually cares about the company they work for notices they have 40 VPs in an org of 500, or 4 layers of VPs and asks “wtf” and actually does something about it.<p>One of the VPs leaves, then ruins another company the same way.<p>Bottom line: VPs should be developed from within, or have such an obvious and clear role they are recruited for, and aren’t allowed to hire their friends or previous coworkers.